Happy 90th Birthday Queen Elizabeth II, Here are some Amazing Facts You Didn't Know About Her
Queen Elizabeth II celebrates a landmark birthday, and despite a life lived in the public eye there are still a few things you might not know about Britain’s longest-reigning monarch.
Here are some cool facts courtesy of Time,
-She created a new dog breed the “dorgi” when Princess Margaret’s dachshund Pipkin mated with one of her corgis, according to the British Royal Family’s website: “There have been 8 dorgis Tinker, Pickles, Chipper, Piper, Harris, Brandy, Cider and Berry.”
-Some of the most unusual gifts she has received during her reign include: two live tortoises and a 7-year-old bull elephant named “Jumbo.”
-In 1982, an intruder scaled Buckingham Palace and entered her bedroom. They had a 10-minute conversation before she called up security. Initially charged with burglary for drinking a bottle of Prince Charles’s wine, he was acquitted by a London jury.
-A “gin and Dubonnet” has been her cocktail of choice, former personal chefs to the Queen told The Telegraph
-She loves watching Downton Abbey and revels in spotting historical errors on the show on occasion, biographer Brian Hoey, who wrote At Home With The Queen, told People.
-There is a practical reason for her monochromatic outfits. “You have to be able to see that figure in a lemon coat and hat from far away,” Hugo Vickers, author of Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, told the New York Times.
-Photography is one of her hobbies.
-She has about 200 racing pigeons.
-A 116-year-old Canadian man was the oldest person she has ever written a letter to, and that was in December 1984.
Happy birthday Queeny. May you celebrate this and many more till you watch Somali Host The World Cup.
Source: Time.
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